CSP2324

There you go the story of my GS1000.. "As I said once I locate the picture of the tank from above ( I have a good one somewhere ) ill post it, you will have to bare with me as it's somewhere in a box and as yet I can't find it ).." I bought the bike when I was 18, It had a Harris pipe, Dymag rear wheel and these clip ons that were rubbish and would sometimes move on the forks when you were going into a bend, I can't remember what went wrong with the engine but I put it into a shop to sort out, unfortunately for me someone put the window of the shop in and the bike was covered in glass with the friggin engine open and internals exposed. So I got it back and we totally pulled the whole bike apart, every nut and bolt and rebuilt it, but still it wasn’t right. By then much had been done to the entire bike and a lot of time and money had been spent on it. So I contacted Village Bike shop and it was taken there to just sort the engine out. However like a kid in a sweet shop I saw stuff there that blew me away, I remember there was a bike with a monoshock conversion, I was like can you do that to mine and so it started. Then it was can you do this, can you do that and so on… So by the end of it, on top of the stuff that had already done, it had the front and rear end on it off an 1100 EF, Wiesco Pistons, Kent Cams, Multi Angle Valves, Welded Con Rods, Mikuni smoothbores, an oil cooler, a Vance & Hines pipe, strengthen frame, 1100 EF wheels. I'd already done just about every nut and bolt in stainless steel, Goodridge hoses, Dyna coils, ignition, custom engine mounts, filler cap... the list was endless… It was already black, i'd powder coated the frame, I think the VBS colours Pip had done at Dream Machine but can’t be 100 percent on that. I just remember picking it up, it was perfect, totally Pip Higham’d up. The master had done his magic. But it was not long lived, the bike i'd spent so long to get sorted, was smashed to pieces six months later in a what has to be said ( and I’ve had a few gooden’s ) a horrific accident. You hear people say “I was lucky to be alive” but I must admit it was a miracle. I remember looking across at it on its side smoking on its side in a drive way, it was absolutely wrecked after somersaulting end over end down the road behind me as the skin was gravel rashin’ away from my limbs. I couldn’t physically ride for some time as id been badly injured ( and I can’t remember exactly what happened as it was lifetime ago ) I must of sold the wrecked bike back to Pip or he bought it off the insurance company or something… Anyway that was that and I forget about it, I had many more bikes and it was a memory lost in history, that was until one day by utter chance, I saw a picture of it on this site… I couldn’t believe my eyes, It was like seeing a ghost, I had to double take, it was my bike, but it couldn’t be… the last time I saw it was over thirty years ago, dead and badly smashed up. It was an odd feeling but I remembered the registration, it was my bike. So there it was it had been rebuilt pretty much exactly the same, the guy who has it now is on this site, the story of the bike continues, follow his thread. Respect ‘Havoc’ its super cool to see it again I don’t have regrets in life but some time after I recovered from the accident I went to see Pip about buying his turbo charged nitrous 1100EF that he was selling, he also had his GSXR1100 turbo charged nitrous for sale to, they were both ultimate street bike monsters, god knows why I didn’t buy one of them… I should of.

Posted up on the thread for you, a bike without a history is like a tree without roots eh. All the best to you with its future Havoc.. Respect, CSP

There you go… If you go to about me on my profile the story and pictures of the bike are on there. I can’t find the picture looking down at the tank ( but I will do, you know how long it took me to find these but its here somewhere ) I have a good one sat on the bike looking down at it so you can see exactly where the logo is but its in a box and I have not located it.

I think the GS1000 was the start of it, the Wes Cooley bike being the ultimate GS, but the big Suzuki’s that followed were even more awesome..

See “about me” on my profile… I stuck the info and pictures up for “Havoc” who owns the bike now…

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I have finally found the pictures now of when the bike was built for me back in the 80’s.. ill post them on the weekend

No worries nice one, if possible id like to have the pictures from Pip to when you get them please....

Right, ive been to look through a load of boxes in storage to find the photos and to my annoyance I still can’t find them. Unfortunately when I moved some of the stuff got spread out to different locations including all of my photographs. I will find them at some point, this I do know. But that is of no use to you now.

Yep not forgotten, just been busy with work, checked some months back where I thought they were but the photo's weren't there, I'm pretty sure I know where they are now. I'll try and grab them this weekend

Bare with me as the photos I do have are in my mates attic so it may take a few weeks. It’s pretty much the same as it was, the exhaust was a Vance & Hines, it looked better than the one on there now, i think the rear mudguard was shorter and the plate smaller, It was a big accident, I don’t have the photos of it afterwards ( although they do exist somewhere ) amoungst other things the back end was ripped off, it travelled along way going end over end and then rolled before stopping in a plume of smoke. That paint is VBS colours ( i think done by dream machine ) the VBS logo was down the middle of the tank.

Thats wicked.... the bike was built to my spec. There is hardly anything on it or inside it thats standard, Wiseco pistons, Kent Cams, Dyna Coils, welded crank, multi angled valves, the frames welded etc... nearly all the nuts and bolts are stainless. I was 21 when I had it built... Were did you get it from and how long have you had it ? Does it still have the VBS logo on the tank ?

Unreal, thats the bike pip Higham built for me. I know every inch of that bike. I had a massive accident on it and smashed it to pieces. I sold it back to Village Bike Shop or something like that, I can’t remember it was in the late 80’s and they rebuilt it. It looks pretty much as it was except the exhaust pipe and it had my name on the tail piece. It’s quite weird to see it.